‘”What,” Belichick asked, “were the other options?” The Patriots weren’t about to trade Brady, who won a Super Bowl at 24. They weren’t about to keep Brady and the $100 million contract of Bledsoe. Honk if you were making sport of the Patriots when they were 3-0 and Brady was finding open receivers at will. Bledsoe never reached this stratosphere in nine seasons with the Patriots. There’s no reason to think it would have happened if he stayed.’